IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mooncreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05CA023605001
  • User Pedon ID: 05CA023605001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05CA023605001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0639
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18612
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 41.0383056
  • Std. Longitude: -123.7790000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 36
  • Location Description: Pine Ridge
  • Map Unit: 464—Mooncreek-Tossup-Noisy complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41123-A7—Hupa Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Xeric Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mooncreek (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mooncreek
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum derived from sandstone and mudstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Franciscan Formation formation of the Franciscan group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F005XB101CA Douglas-fir/tanoak, mountain slopes, sandstone and mudstone, clay loam

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/15/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6250-86
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARME

    LIDE3

    PSME

    Arbutus menziesii

    Lithocarpus densiflorus

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Pacific madrone

    tanoak

    Douglas-fir

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—200

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    3/15/2005

    50

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    8
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    35

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    990

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    60

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03707; moist when described; observed in cut
    A—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 20.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 20.0 medium interstitial and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03708; moist when described; observed in cut
    ABt—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 20.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 18.0 fine roots; 5.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03709; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bt1—16 to 54 centimeters (6.3 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 5.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03710; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bt2—54 to 96 centimeters (21.3 to 37.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 12.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03711; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bt3—96 to 139 centimeters (37.8 to 54.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 2.0 medium tubular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03712; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bt4—139 to 200 centimeters (54.7 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 2.0 medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 16 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, bromcresol green. Lab sample # 05N03713; moist when described; observed in cut